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Garry Barrett completed his BEc (Hons) at the University of Sydney, and his MA and PhD at the University of British Columbia. Garry's main areas of research are labour economics, public economics and microeconometrics. Garry's research has focused on measuring economic inequality and poverty; applying consumption based measures of wellbeing; examining participation in income support programs and, more recently, analyzing the determinants of retirement behaviour and household saving. His work has been published in journals such as Econometrica,Journal of Public Economics, Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, Econometrics Journal, Review of Income and Wealth, Canadian Journal of Economics and The Economic Record.

2014

House prices, mortgage debt and labour supply:evidence from Australian households; Atalay K, Edwards R, Barrett G; Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute Ltd/National Housing Research Program - Research Projects.

The relationship between intergenerational transfers, housing and economic outcomes; Whelan S, Barrett G, Cigdem M, Wood G; Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute Ltd/National Housing Research Program - Research Projects.

2007

Understanding the Saving Behaviour of Australian Households: Private Retirement Provision and the Policy of Forced Saving; Barrett G, Tseng Y, Crossley T; Australian Research Council (ARC)/Discovery Projects (DP).

2003

Robust Empirical Analysis of Consumption Poverty in Australia; Barrett G; Australian Research Council (ARC)/Discovery Projects (DP).

Atalay, K., Barrett, G. (2015). The Impact of Age Pension Eligibility Age on Retirement and Program Dependence: Evidence from an Australian Experiment. Review of Economics and Statistics, 97(1), 71-87. [More Information]

Atalay, K., Barrett, G. (2015). The Impact of Age Pension Eligibility Age on Retirement and Program Dependence: Evidence from an Australian Experiment. Review of Economics and Statistics, 97(1), 71-87. [More Information]